Scams are everywhere, you fall for them if you want. AI in general is the biggest data privacy risk ever created, but people are happily providing every last bit of data they have to companies that they never even heard of before.

>Any data of mine or my company's going over the wire to these models needs to stay verifiably private.

I don't think this is possible without running everyting locally and the data not leaving the machine (or possibly local network) you control.

> I think we need to press harder for verified privacy at inference.

Who are we going to press for this (if we're in the US)... the AI companies who have spent the last 3-5 years ingesting all the data they can find, legality be damned?

Or the presidential administration... the only branch of our supposed 3 branch system that hasn't abdicated its own power and who very obviously doesn't give a shit what you think about anything if you have nothing to offer them?

> And any solution like it is as well.

Depends. I think I would like it to have an observing AI which is only active when I want it to, so that it logs the work done, but isn't a running process when I don't want to, which would be the default.

But that should certainly not be bundled with the OS and best even a portable app, so no registry entries, no files outside of its directory (or a user-provided data directory)

Let's say you're about to troubleshoot an important machine and have several terminals and applications open, it would be good to have something that logs all the things done with timestamped image sequences.

The idea of Recall is good, but we can't trust Microsoft.

> Any data of mine or my company's going over the wire to these models needs to stay verifiably private.

Apple is paying billions to run gemini3 in their ecosystem. 20-200$ won't buy you that :)